Parlor cooking-stove



E. 'R." BROWN.

Parlor Cooking'Stove.

No. 6,499. Patented June 5, 1849,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

E. R. BROWN, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

PARLOR COOKING-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 6,499, dated June 5, 1849.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD R. BROWN, of the city of Albany and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Cooking-Stoves, which Stove so Improved I call Browns Cabinet-Top Parlor Cooking-Stoves; and I declare that the following specification with the drawings forming part of the same is a full and perfect description thereof.

In every other respect than the improvement which I claim, the stove may be in any of the various forms and arrangements now used either for parlor coal or wood stoves or for cooking stoves, but I prefer the form and shape and arrangement shown in the draw ings attached hereto, as being most ornamental in the furniture of a room.

The stove is represented in the drawing where A, B, E, F represents its body G the fire chamber door, II the door of an oven, underneath the fire chamber, around which the fire circulates by proper flues, and then passes off through the pipe J.

My improvement consists: 1In making a top plate A, B, C, D, to the fire-chamber fitted with holes to receive culinary utensils, which plate may be either level with the top of the side plates of the stove or be sunk a small distance below the same. 2. In fixing above this plate an outer plate or cover K L M N formed in a style corresponding with the exterior figure and ornamental design of the stove, and made to fit over the first mentioned plate as a lid or cover:

This cover may lie loose over the top of the stove and be removable whenever the stove is used for cooking or be fixed on h1nges as represented in the drawing (which I prefer) so as to be turned back when necessary like the lid of a piece of cabinet furniture.

The usefulness of this improvement I consider to consist in the convertibility of the apparatus in a short time from a cooking stove into an ornamental parlor stove hav- 1ng none of the visible insignia of a cooking concerna matter not affected by any of the stoves now in use, and one much to be desired for small families wishing to consult economy in their domestic arrangements, and yet maintain a due correspondence in taste between the articles of furniture in their parlors.

I claim The employment of a double top plate constructed as described the upper part of which is whole and is removable at pleasure while the lower portion is furnished with appertures for boiler holes which are covered with ordinary covers as set forth both parts fof the double top being made the full size 0 the stove. T

WVitnesses: BROW)" J. B. BRINSMADE, JR, BICH R NK E IT'L 

